(felix colville-andersen) i think it's funny how grandpa only honks the horn maybe five times a year, whereas the taxi drivers maybe do it 100 times in one drive. (mikaelville-andersen) paris is a storied city. more than most others in the world. it's a city that's synonymous with inspiring change. fighting for it, demanding it, forcing it. this is a birthplace of revolutions, and right now,

(felix colville-andersen) i think it's funny how grandpa only honks the horn maybe five times a year, whereas the taxi drivers maybe do it 100 times in one drive. (mikael colville-andersen) paris is a storied city. more than most others in the world. it's a city that's synonymous with inspiring change. fighting for it, demanding it, forcing it. this is a birthplace of revolutions, and rit

the more dangerous the [mikael colville-andersen] is everything i've heard about this place really truelittle architectural wonderland? is it a throbbing, pulsing miami of the mediterranean? can it really be one of the world's great lgbt capitals, here in a region plagued by violence and living under a constant threat of war? i'm in tel aviv. but i'm also in a city that i've heard will surprise me. for more than 70 years at least, the news coming out of this region has been overwhelmingly negative. i'm going to look past the propaganda and the fancy city branding, and i'm going to meet passionate locals who will explain to me, in no uncertain terms, their urban reality.

risking a return to all that because of arguments over trade tariffs remains [mikael colville-andersenfirst came to bangkok in the early 1990's as an impressionable young backpacker. the city fulfilled absolutely every expectation i had about a noisy, crazy, non-stop asian city should be like. absolutely every urban challenge faced by cities around the world is amplified here in bangkok. this country is run by a military dictatorship who's also trying to influence urban development and urban planning. there are very few examples from history where that story has a happy ending. this series is about finding the life-sized pockets of goodness in cities around the world. there's still a refreshing insane madneness to this place. outside of the comfort zone of this amazing market lies the urban jungle.